Benalish Cavalry
Creature — Human Knight
Flanking (Whenever a creature without flanking blocks this creature, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #24238
Benalish Cavalry is a 2/2 for two mana that gains mountainwalk until end of turn whenever you attack — a conditional evasion ability that's too narrow to matter in most games. Bulk rare status exists for a reason: this card rarely earns its slot.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Benalish Cavalry sees no meaningful play across any competitive format. In Commander, mountainwalk is relevant only against opponents running red, and even then you're spending a card slot on a 2/2 with no persistent impact. Pauper is the one format where white weenie one-drops and two-drops see action, but Benalish Cavalry loses out to cheaper, more reliable bodies like Savannah Lions or Thraben Inspector. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in a vanilla-statted creature with a conditional combat trick.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Benalish Cavalry is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box. That price is a ceiling, not a floor: demand isn't coming.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.